Historian and writer to discuss women under the new Egyptian regime

Posted August 30, 2012; 12:16 p.m.

by Staff

"A Conversation on Women and the Revolution in Egypt," with Margot Badran of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, and Yasmine El Rashidi, a Cairo-based writer and 2012-13 Hodder Fellow at the Lewis Center for the Arts, will take place at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, in the Stewart Theater, 185 Nassau St. The event is part of "The Fertile Crescent," a regionwide, multidimensional project focusing on contemporary women artists, writers, filmmakers, composers and performers from the Middle East and the Middle East diaspora.